Thursday, April 30, 2015

We
hope Marquette can pick up one of the top available players fromour rankings
here. Tonight we run through the competition -
ranking all the conferences competing with the Big East for bids, and ranking
both their teams and top 40 players.

The Big 12 was the best conference top to bottom last year due to having no weak teams. With Buddy Hield waiting another year for the NBA, Iowa State continuing to load up on JUCO stars, Shaka Smart in Texas and Kansas and Baylor looking elite - well you get it. Even TCU and Texas Tech are pulling in great talent, leaving K-State in danger of falling to last. Right now eight of 10 teams project to easily make the tournament.

Natl Rnk

Conference

Team

Record

Raw

Value Add

1

Big 12

B12

31.44

3

Oklahoma

24--11

48.26

38.81

4

Kansas

27--9

47.68

38.50

8

West Virginia

25--10

43.65

35.48

12

Baylor

24--10

38.04

33.50

18

Texas

20--14

37.36

32.54

20

Iowa St.

25--9

35.91

32.41

25

Oklahoma St.

18--14

35.34

30.48

36

Texas Christian

18--15

32.61

28.37

64

Texas Tech

13--19

31.08

23.43

93

Kansas St.

15--17

20.23

20.88

Natl Rnk

Top 40 Players

Team

Ht

Yr

Value Add

2

Morris, Monte 11

Iowa St.

6'2

3 Jr

10.58

9

Mason, Frank 0

Kansas

5'11

3 Jr

9.16

18

Hield, Buddy 24

Oklahoma

6'4

4 Sr

8.52

22

Gathers, Rico 2

Baylor

6'8

4 Sr

8.33

50

Spangler, Ryan 0

Oklahoma

6'8

4 Sr

7.34

53

Prince, Taurean 21

Baylor

6'7

4 Sr

7.25

63

Forte, Phil 13

Oklahoma St.

5'11

4 Sr

6.84

73

Ellis, Perry 34

Kansas

6'8

4 Sr

6.64

79

Hield, Buddy 24

Oklahoma

6'4

4 Sr

6.53

81

Williams, Kenrich 34

Texas Christian

6'7

3 Jr

6.51

95

Carter, Jevon 2

West Virginia

6'2

2 So

6.29

97

Taylor, Isaiah 1

Texas

6'1

3 Jr

6.26

112

Washburn, Chris 33

Texas Christian

6'8

3 Jr

6

133

Woodard, Jordan 10

Oklahoma

6'0

3 Jr

5.79

149

Manyang, Akolda

Oklahoma

7'0

3 Jr

5.7

151

Ridley, Cameron 55

Texas

6'9

4 Sr

5.65

161

Myers, Teyvon

West Virginia

6'2

3 Jr

5.5

174

Bragg, Carlton

Kansas

6'9

1 Fr

5.35

176

Ibaka, Igor

Oklahoma St.

6'9

3 Jr

5.3

179

McKay, Jameel 1

Iowa St.

6'9

4 Sr

5.29

184

Graham, Devonte' 4

Kansas

6'2

2 So

5.24

201

Cousins, Isaiah 11

Oklahoma

6'4

4 Sr

5.11

211

Miles, Daxter 4

West Virginia

6'3

2 So

5.04

223

Lammert, Connor 21

Texas

6'9

4 Sr

5

233

Niang, Georges 31

Iowa St.

6'8

4 Sr

4.92

252

Acuil, Joseph

Baylor

7'0

3 Jr

4.8

279

White, Andrew

Kansas

6'6

3 Jr

4.64

282

Nash, Le'Bryan 2

Oklahoma St.

6'7

4 Sr

4.61

284

Williams, Devin 5

West Virginia

6'9

3 Jr

4.61

294

Long, Naz 15

Iowa St.

6'4

4 Sr

4.51

301

Iwundu, Wesley 25

Kansas St.

6'7

3 Jr

4.48

326

Holton, Jonathan 1

West Virginia

6'7

4 Sr

4.33

358

Boucher, Chris

Texas Tech/maybe

6'10

3 Jr

4.16

364

Medford, Lester 11

Baylor

5'10

4 Sr

4.12

368

Trent, Malique

Texas Christian

6'2

3 Jr

4.1

373

Smith, Zach 11

Texas Tech

6'8

2 So

4.08

452

Evans, Jawun

Oklahoma St.

6'0

1 Fr

3.79

463

Greene, Brannen 14

Kansas

6'7

3 Jr

3.71

466

Burton, Deonte 30

Iowa St.

6'4

3 Jr

3.7

501

Edwards, Justin 14

Kansas St.

6'4

4 Sr

3.54

These are the top 40 players in the conference based on the
rankings at www.valueaddbasketball.com.
The team rankings are 50% based on the sum of each team’s Value Add ratings and
50% based on last year (since better teams typically replenish after losing
stars). With over 4000 players projected in the database, we WELCOME all
corrections in the comments field.

Value Add was first introduced on www.crackedsidewalks.com, and
calculates how many points better each player is worth to his team over how
good they would be if he was replaced. The projections measure the standard
improvement in a player between his freshman, sophomore, junior and senior
seasons, and the evaluation of incoming freshman and JUCO players.